HORTUS VEITCHII 



Menzies procured cones seed and young plants which he succeeded 

 in bringing alive to Europe. He gave them to Sir Joseph Banks, and some 

 found their way to the Eoyal Gardens, Kew ; one lived in an unhealthy 

 condition till the autumn of 1892, when it incontinently died. 



Eor many years after Menzies' introduction of A. imbricata the Conifer 

 remained scarce till William Lobb sent a large supply of seed in 1844, and 

 the tree became generally planted; to this consignment many of the 

 oldest specimens in this country are traceable. 



AEAUGAEIA KQLEI, F. Milller. 



Syns. A. Niepratschki, Hort. Lemoine. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 868, figs. ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 304. 

 Originally discovered by William Duncan, a plant collector in the 

 employ of Mr. John Eule of Melbourne, Victoria, about the year 1860, 

 the tree, a native of New Caledonia, was found on the lofty summit of an 

 extinct volcano, and introduced to British Gardens in 1863. 



A Certificate of Merit was awarded by the Eoyal Botanic Society in 

 June 1879, as Araucaria Niepratschki, on being exhibited by Messrs. 

 Veitch. 



CEPHALOTAXUS OLIVEEI, Mast. 



Syns. 0. Oriffithii, Oliver. 



Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 645 ; id. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. 



p. 227, fig. 93. 



A new species from China from seed collected in the Province of Hupeh, 

 noticeable for the regularly two-ranked manner in which the leaves are 

 disposed, in close approximation, as the teeth of a comb. 



Yet too early to predict the position this tree will occupy in British 

 Arboreta, but as a handsome, desirable addition to Coniferous subjects 

 it should ever hold a high position. 



CEYPTOMEEIA JAPONICA, Don, var. ELEGANS, Mast. 



Syns. C. elegans, Carriere. 



Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 498 ; Gordon's Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 73 ; Man. 

 Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 264, figs. 80, 81. 



Introduced by the late John Gould Veitch, a most fortunate and 

 distinct addition to Pineta. 



In the southern and western counties of England this Conifer produces 

 such masses of foliage that the weight causes the apex to incline. 



CEYPTOMEEIA JAPONICA, D. Don, var. LOBBII, Carriere. 



Syns. 0. Lobbii, Hort. 

 Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 264, fig. 



This form introduced through Thomas Lobb, from the Buitenzorg 



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